Ancylotrypa elongata, commonly known as the long-bodied wafer-lid trapdoor spider, is a species of spider of the genus Ancylotrypa. It occurs in southern Africa.[1]
Ancylotrypa elongata is a southern African endemic known from Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa. In South Africa, it has been recorded from Limpopo and Northern Cape provinces (Lephalale, Western Soutpansberg, Turfloop, and Tswalu Game Reserve), at elevations between 1155 and 1523 meters above sea level.[2]
Taxonomy
The species was originally described from Botswana by Purcell in 1908. The male was first described and the female redescribed by Zonstein et al. in 2018.[3]
Habitat and ecology
Ground dwellers that live in silk-lined burrows. The species has been sampled from the Savannabiome.[2]
1 2 3 Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S.; Haddad, C.R.; Foord, S.H.; Lotz, L.N. (2022). The Cyrtaucheniidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide. pp.1–37. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6760048.This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
1 2 Zonstein, S.L.; Marusik, Y.M.; Koponen, S. (2018). "A redescription of Ancylotrypa elongata Purcell, 1908, with first description of the male (Aranei: Cyrtaucheniidae)". Arthropoda Selecta. 27 (3): 227–231. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.3.05.
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